Reynard Saputra

Engineer.

I build software for a living and tools for fun. Backend systems, internal apps, and the automation that keeps a company running without anyone noticing.

Experience

Five roles, from first internship to now.

InternshipNow

Product Engineer at FINN

Munich, Germany

Building the internal tools that keep FINN's operations running, in TypeScript and React. I ship fast with AI-assisted development like Claude Code and MCP skills, and work across teams to turn messy business processes into tickets, docs and working software.

Working Student

Full-Stack Engineer at Canon Production Printing

Munich, Germany

Worked on a global diagnostics dashboard for Canon's mass-production printers, built in TypeScript, React and Python. I added the features and tools engineers used to analyse and monitor printers worldwide, and kept close contact with stakeholders along the way.

Working Student

Software Engineer at Expleo Group

Munich, Germany

Developed and tested automotive software used by customers across the industry. Most of my time went into writing and maintaining Java and QF-Test suites that kept the UI reliable release after release.

Working Student

Full-Stack Engineer at Technical University of Munich

Munich, Germany

Built and maintained the university-wide dashboard students use to register, track and complete their assignments. I worked across the whole stack in PHP and CSS, from registration through to submission.

Internship

Customer Engineer at Microsoft

Munich, Germany

My first look at engineering at scale. I shadowed senior engineers helping customers troubleshoot and design Azure cloud architectures, and wrote Python tools to streamline internal processes.

Education

Informatics at TUM, bachelor's to master's.

Master of Science in Informatics

Technical University of Munich · Munich, Germany

  • Machine Learning
  • Data Analysis
  • Software Engineering
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Network Architecture

Bachelor of Science in Informatics

Technical University of Munich · Munich, Germany

  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Software Engineering
  • IT Security
  • Data Structures and Algorithms

Work

What I'm building, and what I've built along the way.

Founding

BuildingApp

Rival

Your lifts and your runs, finally in one place. Rival is the training log for people whose week doesn't fit in a single app.

BuildingApp

SavorShelf

That recipe you saved on TikTok and never made? SavorShelf turns it into one you'll actually cook. Save from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and food blogs, all on one shelf.

Side projects

Research

Gaussian3D-Edit

A real-time 3D head editing pipeline. Type an instruction and the volumetric head changes to match, built on Gaussian Splatting and Instruct-Pix2Pix.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Gaussian Splatting
Client work

Business Automation Dashboard

A web dashboard for a client that generates invoices, works out taxes and breaks down revenue automatically, replacing hours of spreadsheet work.

  • Full-stack
  • REST APIs
  • NoSQL
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Sixt Sales Representative AI

Built in 36 hours. An AI web app that reads a Sixt customer's booking and recommends the vehicle upgrade they're most likely to take.

  • React
  • Python
  • NoSQL
  • Linear programming
Client work

AudioX

A cloud-native transcription platform that turns a client's customer-service call recordings into searchable text, automatically.

  • AWS Transcribe
  • S3
  • Lambda
  • Python

How I work

What I've carried from job to job.

01

Learn the domain, not just the stack.

Every role has dropped me into something new: production printers at Canon, automotive software at Expleo, car subscriptions at FINN. The tech is the part you can pick up. Understanding what the business is actually trying to do is what makes the work useful.

02

Own it, and get it moving.

I'm at my best hands-on and close to the problem. I go looking for ownership, dig in until I understand it, and ship. Then I check whether it actually made a difference.

03

Build from a pain I actually have.

Rival and SavorShelf both live in crowded spaces. I build them anyway because I live the problem every week, and that's where I find the gaps the existing apps still leave open.

04

AI to go faster. Curiosity to go further.

I use AI every day, for code, for getting into unfamiliar domains, and for shipping sooner. The bar has moved and I'd rather move with it. None of that replaces wanting to understand how things work. It just gets me there faster.

Stack

What I reach for today.

Frontend
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • React Native
Backend
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Postgres
Infrastructure
  • AWS
  • GitHub
AI
  • Claude Code
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini

Say hello

For work, ideas, or a coffee.